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Global Investing Made Easy

Your Wealth-Creating Guide to International Markets Warren Ingram

$17.50 • Paperback • 176 pages • 6x9.2 January 2022 • BUS050020 978-1-7760-9639-8

Investing overseas can be a very intimidating, even scary, subject. Even though many of us would love to invest internationally, we have limited information on how and where to place our money. This book will demystify global investing by providing novice investors with practical guidelines on how to invest overseas while helping them to avoid the inherent pitfalls. Global Investing Made Easy covers all the main aspects that a non-financial person should know before embarking on a global investment journey and will be helpful to investors across the globe. People of all ages and levels of wealth will benefit from the practical, easy-to-understand, jargon-free information required to invest in the international markets, proving that financial freedom is possible for everyone.

Thinking the Future

New Perspectives from the Shoulders of Giants Clem Sunter Mitch Ilbury

$17.50 • Paperback • 176 pages • 6x9.2 January 2022 • SOC037000 978-1-7760-9629-9

All our decisions are about the future, whether it’s tomorrow, next year, or the next decade, yet our choices are often undermined by desires, expectations, and common mental mistakes. But if you can learn how to think, you can learn how to look ahead. In Thinking the Future, Clem Sunter and Mitch Ilbury teach us the futurist’s art of decision-making by re-imagining seminal concepts from some of history’s greatest thinkers. They encourage foxy, flexible mindsets and reject the popular but misleading self-help tenet that you can decide your fate through the relentless pursuit of a single goal. An uncertain world demands a more dynamic approach. The point is not to forecast one outcome but to plot multiple scenarios of what could happen. Using scenario-planning techniques, we can all harness the power to work towards the future we want, avoid the ones we don’t, and prepare ourselves for the possible risks and opportunities no matter what transpires.

Mission of Malice

My Exodus from KwaSizabantu Erika Bornman

$17.50 • Paperback • 256 pages 6x9.2 • 8 pages of photos January 2022 • BIO032000 978-1-7760-9623-7

In the 1980s, Erika Bornman’s family joins, and ultimately moves, to KwaSizabantu, a Christian mission based in KwaZulu-Natal, which is touted as a nirvana, founded on egalitarian values. But something sinister lurks beneath ‘the place where people are helped’. Life at KwaSizabantu is hard. Christianity is used to justify harsh punishments and congregants are forced to repent for their sins. Threats of physical violence ensure adherence to stringent rules. Parents are pitted against children. Friendships are discouraged. Isolated and alone, Erika lives in constant fear of eternal damnation. At 16, her grooming at the hands of a senior mission counsellor begins. For the next five years, KwaSizabantu wages emotional, psychological, and sexual warfare on her, until finally she manages to break free and escape at the age of 21. Escaping a restrictive religious community is difficult, but rehabilitation into ‘normal’ life after a decade of ritual humiliation, brainwashing, and abuse is much more painful, as Erika soon discovers. She cannot ignore her knowledge of the grievous human-rights abuses being committed at KwaSizabantu, and so she embarks on a quest to expose the atrocities.

Uncaptured

The True Account of the Nenegate/Trillian Whistleblower Mosilo Mothepu

$19 • Paperback • 232 pages • 6x9.2 8 pages of photographs Currently Available • BIO010000 978-1-77-609570-4

When Mosilo Mothepu was appointed CEO of Trillian Financial Advisory, a subsidiary of Gupta-linked Trillian Capital Partners, in March 2016, the prospect of being at the helm of a black-owned financial consultancy was electrifying for a black woman whose twin passions were transformation and empowering women. In October 2016, a written statement handed to Public Protector Thuli Madonsela detailing Trillian’s involvement in state capture was leaked to the media. Although she was not identified by name as the source of the affidavit, details of the revelations left no doubt in the minds of Trillian’s executives: Mothepu was the Nenegate whistleblower. Facing criminal charges and bankruptcy, unemployed and deemed a political risk, Mothepu experienced first-hand the loneliness of whistleblowing. Now, in Uncaptured, she recounts this troubling yet seminal chapter in her life with honesty, humility, and wry humor in the hope that others who find themselves in a similar situation will follow in her footsteps and speak truth to power.

Blues for the White Man

Hearing Black Voices in South Africa and the Deep South Fred de Vries

$18 • Paperback • 256 pages • 6x9.2 8 pages of photos • January 2022 MUS003000 • 978-1-7760-9600-8

It started with a question about the blues: what makes the music of the downtrodden black man so alluring to white middle-class ears? And that’s where it gets interesting. Because blues is more than a musical genre: it’s a cultural phenomenon that spans several centuries on both sides of the Atlantic, from slavery to Black Lives Matter, from Jan van Riebeeck to Fees Must Fall, from Robert Johnson to Abdullah Ibrahim. In Blues for the White Man, Fred de Vries looks for answers in America’s Deep South, drawing historical parallels with South Africa’s experience of colonialism, slavery, racism, civil war, segregation, and protest. Traveling to Atlanta, Memphis, Nashville, New Orleans, and the Mississippi Delta, De Vries speaks to musicians, Black Lives Matter activists, and Trump supporters. He continues the conversation in South Africa, interviewing student protesters, white farmers, and political thought-leaders to develop an understanding of white supremacy and black anger, white fear, and black pain. A fascinating, insightful journey through time and space, Blues for the White Man is a celebration of multiculturalism and a plea for white people to do some ‘second line dancing’ for a change.

Dinosaurs of Africa

Anusuya Chinsamy-Turan Luis V. Rey

$10.50 • Paperback • 64 pages • 8.6x11.2 99 full-color photographs; 68 color illustrations January 2022 • JNF003050 978-1-7758-4770-0

As much of the African continent is covered in dense vegetation, dinosaur fossils have been relatively rare. Yet parts of the continent – from the Sahara Desert and the dusty plains of Kenya and Tanzania to the sandstone flats of the Karoo – have yielded a significant number of these fascinating creatures, thereby making an important contribution to the science of palaeontology. A brief general introduction on the subject is followed by short chapters on different dinosaur species, including fish-eating, sociable, and predatory dinosaurs, as well as the biggest meat-eating dinosaur of all time. Details are given about where these creatures were found, the meaning of their scientific names, and their size and diet. Spectacular, colorful illustrations bring the dinosaurs vividly to life; photographs, maps, and line drawings further illustrate the subject; and a variety of information boxes add to the intrigue. Previously published as Famous Dinosaurs of Africa, this revised edition includes newly discovered species, the latest scientific information, and vibrant new illustrations. Although written for children, it is sure to have broad appeal for anyone interested in learning more about dinosaurs.

Friends. Food. Flavour.

Michael Olivier's Great South African Recipes Michael Olivier Roelien Immelman

$28 • Hardback • 176 pages • 8.7x11 180 illustrations & photos • January 2022 CKB031000 • 978-1-4859-0087-0

Michael Olivier was invited by the Voyager Wine Estate in Western Australia to prepare a ‘Cape Buffet’ for the duration of the Margaret River November Wine Festival. He and his wife, Madeleine, researched, deconstructed, and rebuilt the recipes, leaving them with a collection of essentially Cape Dishes, which he wanted to publish. Michael and Roelien Immelman, a very talented illustrative designer, agreed to go in a partnership on Friends. Food. Flavour., and including the recipes of friends, this book was born. The dishes are eclectic with Roelien’s superb illustrations and Mike Robinson’s sensitive photography.

Rogues’ Gallery

An Irreverent History of Corruption in South Africa, from the VOC to the ANC Matthew Blackman Nick Dall

$19 • Paperback • 352 pages • 6x9.2 80 illustrations and photographs Currently Available • HIS047000 978-1-77-609590-2

The action starts with the machinations of three colonial governors: rotten Willem Adriaan van der Stel and the ‘twaddling’ British duo, Sir George Yonge and Lord Charles Somerset. Added to this is Cecil John Rhodes’s unparalleled success in poisoning the land with theft, fraud, and war, and Oom Paul Kruger’s corrupt and compromised Volksraads (official and unofficial). Readers are then treated to apartheid’s finest feats in corruption: from the Broederbond’s perfect ten in state capture to the Department of Information’s peddling of fake news and the apartheid state’s manufacture of – no, not illegal cigarettes – Class A drugs! And let’s not forget the hotbed of corruption that was the ‘independent’ homelands. Add to this a few murders, plenty of nepotism and a state president who started out as a Nazi spy, and the gallery of rogues is complete. On the flipside, every chapter also features at least one brave whistle-blower – the true heroes of this book.

Breakthrough

The Struggles and Secret Talks that Brought Apartheid South Africa to the Negotiating Table Mac Maharaj Z. Pallo Jordan

$19 • Paperback • 256 pages • 6x9.2 16 pages of color pictures January 2022 • HIS047000 978-1-7760-9647-3

When President F.W. de Klerk announced the unbanning of the liberation movements on 2 February 1990, he opened the door to negotiations that would end apartheid and pave the way to democracy. Written by two ANC veterans who were close to these events, Breakthrough sheds new light on the process that led to the formal negotiations. Focusing on the years before 1990, the book reveals the skirmishes that took place away from the public glare, as the principal adversaries engaged in a battle of positions that carved a pathway to the negotiating table. Drawing from a myriad of sources, the authors have pieced together a definitive account of these historic developments. While most accounts of South Africa’s transition deal with what happened during the formal negotiations, Breakthrough demonstrates that an account of how the opposing parties reached the negotiating table in the first place is indispensable for an understanding of how South Africa broke free from a spiralling war and began the journey to democracy.

Land Matters

South Africa’s Failed Land Reforms and the Road Ahead Tembeka Ngcukaitobi

$18 • Paperback • 272 pages • 6x9.2 Currently Available • POL028000 978-1-77-609596-4

In Land Matters, Tembeka Ngcukaitobi tackles the past, present, and future of the land question in South Africa. Going back in history, he shows how Africans’ communal systems of landownership were used by colonial rulers to deny that Africans owned the land at all. He explores the effects of the Land Acts, Bantustans, and forced removals. And he evaluates the ANC’s policies on land throughout the struggle years, during the negotiations of the 1990s, and in government. Land Matters unpacks the government’s achievements and failures in land redistribution, restitution, and tenure reform, and makes suggestions for what needs to be done in future. Steering clear of the simplistic and polarising terms of the land debate, Ngcukaitobi argues for a return to the nuanced constitutional requirements of justice and equity in South Africa’s land policy. Thoughtful and provocative, Land Matters sheds light on one of the most topical, complex and urgent issues in South Africa today. Nine Letters

John Webb

$20 • Paperback • 208 pages • 6x9.2 January 2022 • FIC019000 978-1-4859-0413-7 John Webb lives in Honolulu, HI

Durban lawyer Teddy Dickerson has run out of ideas. Cynical, single, and middle-aged, he’s the very last of his family to still call South Africa home. When his formidable Aunt Val dies, she leaves him an unusual bequest: her task for Teddy is to post letters to eight of her friends around the world, a job that will take him on a journey into new and unexpected territory. When the replies start flowing in – quirky, unexpected, and often hilarious missives from India, Egypt, England, Canada, and beyond – Teddy realizes there was more to his tough aunt than he’d thought. Will he take on Aunt Val’s role as confidant and comforter of the lost? Confidant and comforter? Teddy?! One thing’s for certain: Aunt Val is laughing in her grave.

Minerals and Gemstones of Southern Africa

Bruce Cairncross

$27 • Paperback • 296 pages 8.4x10 • 850 full-color photographs • August 2022 SCI048000 978-1-7758-4753-3

Southern Africa has some of the most ancient rocks on Earth and is home to many spectacular and important minerals and gemstones. Minerals & Gemstones of Southern Africa documents the interesting and relevant mineral occurrences in South Africa, Namibia, Botswana, Eswatini, Lesotho, southern Mozambique, and Zimbabwe. Fully updated with spectacular photographs, new distribution records, and an appealing larger format, this new edition of Minerals & Gemstones of Southern Africa features: • An introduction to the geology of the region, including a map depicting the major rock formations • Detailed descriptions of minerals, including their gemological properties, occurrence, and uses • Multiple full-color photographs of each mineral This guide is an invaluable reference for collectors, gemologists, students, and anyone with an interest in the earth sciences. Pangolin Plays a Prank

Avril van der Merwe Heidi-Kate Greeff

$7 • Paperback • 32 pages 8.3x8.3 • 16 illustrations January 2022 • JUV002160 978-1-48-590086-3

After a night of feasting on termites and ants, Pangolin bumps into Lion as she is returning to her burrow to sleep. Since she is not a fast runner, she has to think quickly to avoid being eaten. Being polite and gentle, she doesn’t want to harm Lion, so she decides to trick him instead. Aided unexpectedly by Dung Beetle, her deception proves successful and Lion soon rushes off to find Pangolin, who has been right under his nose all along. Once he is gone, the other animals come out of hiding and Pangolin learns that, despite being shy and solitary, she has more friends than she ever realized.

Grasses of East Africa

Dino J. Martins

$21 • Paperback • 232 pages 5.9x8.4 • 310 full-color photographs; 204 color illustrations & line drawings April 2022 • SCI020000 978-1-7758-4548-5

Grasses of East Africa describes 100 species of common, ecologically important, or remarkable grass found in Kenya, Tanzania, Uganda, Rwanda, and Burundi. Grasses comprise one of the largest plant families on Earth but are possibly the most overlooked. Yet it is these ubiquitous and important plants that have the greatest impact on our daily lives. This book includes: • Clearly laid out and easy-to-use species descriptions • Striking line and watercolor illustrations, labeled to highlight diagnostic features • Full-color photographs • A concise introduction covering the economic significance of grasses, their ecology, habitats, and conservation This is a book that will be invaluable to students, scientists, travelers, and nature lovers, aiding identification while also highlighting the functions of these important plants.

Don't Be Shy Bushbaby

Avril van der Merwe Heidi-Kate Greeff

$6.50 • Paperback 32 pages • 8.26x8.3 16 illustrations October 2021 • JUV002020 978-1-48-590055-9

The animals don’t understand why they never see Bushbaby, so they assume he is shy. One by one, they try to coax him out of his hole in the tree, but Bushbaby never appears. As night falls, the animals head off to sleep. All, that is, except Owl, who has been silently observing the day’s events. As Owl prepares for the night, he calls to Bushbaby, who bounds out of his hole, awake and alert. Throughout the hours of darkness, Owl, Bushbaby, and the other nocturnal animals go about their everyday activities before returning to their beds as daybreak dawns.